Where your space is actually going
On almost every phone we look at, three things eat the most space: years of photos and videos that were never backed up anywhere else, apps you tried once and forgot about, and messaging apps quietly saving every photo and video anyone ever sent you.
We show you exactly what is taking up room on your specific phone before we delete a single thing, so you are making an informed choice, not just clearing space blindly.
Photos, the safe way
We never delete photos without backing them up first, whether that means turning on iCloud Photos, Google Photos, or copying everything to a computer or external drive you keep at home. Once your photos are safely backed up, we can free space on the phone itself without any risk of losing memories.
- Turn on automatic photo backup to iCloud or Google Photos
- Copy your full photo library to a computer or external drive as a second safety copy
- Remove duplicate and blurry photos you will not miss
- Set the phone to keep a smaller local copy once photos are safely backed up elsewhere
Apps and messages, cleared out properly
Beyond photos, we go through your apps together and remove the ones you no longer use, and we clear out the huge folders of old photos and videos that texting apps save automatically without asking. Nothing gets removed unless you tell us it is fine to go.
- Review installed apps together and remove ones you no longer use
- Clear auto-saved photos and videos inside messaging apps
- Show you how to check your storage yourself going forward
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